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Not a Pirate

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Hi there good people
« on: January 03, 2023, 03:04:27 AM »

Hey pilots of the Persian sector,

I've finally managed to join this forum (after several aborted attempts that Alex (bless him) tried to help me with, to no avail), however, I've moved location and I can only assume that now I can get onto this site because of that.   The joys of living in China....

A big shout out to all of you that have created the guides and mods that have taken at least 300 hours of my life from me you evil time vampires. I hope you've become younger and stronger on the scant price of my soul.  ;)

Happy New Year to you all (except any supporters of the Hegemony).
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Re: Hi there good people
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2023, 10:23:21 AM »

Hey pilots of the Persian sector,

I've finally managed to join this forum (after several aborted attempts that Alex (bless him) tried to help me with, to no avail), however, I've moved location and I can only assume that now I can get onto this site because of that.   The joys of living in China....

A big shout out to all of you that have created the guides and mods that have taken at least 300 hours of my life from me you evil time vampires. I hope you've become younger and stronger on the scant price of my soul.  ;)

Happy New Year to you all (except any supporters of the Hegemony).

Welcome to the site and hope you enjoy(ed) the game, if you've already played it.

In terms of reaching the forums if some China firewall was blocking you, perhaps you could try routing your requests through a secure VPN connection. Like Nord VPN for instance  ;)
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Re: Hi there good people
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2023, 12:49:49 PM »

I've been here for 7 years, believe me, I know all the sneaky ways around.   Interestingly enough, this site isn't blocked by the Oh-So-Great Firewall, however it seems that there are whole nests of servers that this site won't allow connection too.

As for Starsector...I know my way around the game but not so much all the stuff that you sometimes have to do to keep the game running smoothly.   I've changed the RAM in the JSON file but you wouldn't know anything about a JAVA update or download would you?

My game slows down terribly after about an hour or so playing...
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Re: Hi there good people
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2023, 10:46:33 PM »

Warm welcome! and down with the Hegemony!

You should probably make a support thread about the slowdown with specs of the computer and mods that you are using. For example Intel Iris graphics can cause issues regardless of your RAM as far as I know, anyway.
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Re: Hi there good people
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2023, 06:32:41 AM »

hiyo, welcome to the forums!

to fix the perf issues, follow this guide (copy-pasted from the pins of #modded_gameplay channel in the unnoficial discord server)

the guide
Mini-guide: Switching to Java 8 to prevent the post-battle slowdown
Not officially supported, may cause unrelated issues, do at your own risk and please report back if you do notice it causing problems.

Symptoms
- After some time playing and immediately after a battle, the game FPS will plummet (eg from 60 to 15-25) and usually only go back to normal after a game restart.
- Saving/loading takes 5x longer than usual.
- Using at least one mod (that adds new sprites? incl. GraphicsLib).

Fix (slow down and read this part carefully)
1. Go to your Starsector install and rename the jre folder to jre7-backup*.
      MacOS users: the jre folder is called Home, so use that instead of jre, and is located in Starsector.app/Contents.
      Linux users: the jre folder is called jre_linux, so use that instead of jre.
2. Download one of the following:
        Note: all are the same JRE 8 v271.
      - Windows .zip (72 MB) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CGRtnv5hIGCtcdlvZXFO0F58VXqYUo6x/view?usp=sharing
      - Windows .7z (48 MB, requires 7zip or equivalent) https://drive.google.com/file/d/155Lk0ml9AUGp5NwtTZGpdu7e7Ehdyeth/view?usp=sharing
      - Linux: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TRHjle6-MOpn1zJhtSA9yvwXIQip_F_n/view?usp=sharing
      - MacOS: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PW9v_CL719buKHe69GaN9fCXcPIqDOIi/view?usp=sharing
3. Extract that into your game folder so you have a folder named jre. You'll now have both jre (with java 8) and jre7-backup.
4. Read the Potential Issues section below (your game+launcher may be zoomed in/off-center).
5. Launch the game as normal.


Potential issues
- Game+launcher is zoomed in/off-center.
    Fix: Right-click Starsector, Properties, Compatibility, Change high DPI settings, tick checkbox for "Override...Scaling performed by Application"
    Thanks to Normal Dude for the fix.
    This is caused by the game or JRE not handling Windows scaling properly.

Afterwards, for even better performance
See G1GC VMParam Collection, made by @Cieve-san. The latest version should be available by searching: in:#mod_updates vmparam.

* So that, if anything goes wrong, you can rename the folders to go back to the original jre.

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Performance Survey Results: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tc6hb0nW3AGoxG1cUQPJITwN_SobJphdiYeGxPACwtc/viewanalytics

Testimonial:
JRE 8 rocks, here's my endorsement if anyone is struggling with FPS issues or post-battle lag - Askar#5535
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there's also a chinese forum maintained by the community over there that'll (hopefully) be easier to access for you https://www.fossic.org/ ,though I'd be surprised if you didn't know about it already heh

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Re: Hi there good people
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2023, 12:56:06 PM »

Thanks for this info.    I'll give it a shot because the post battle slowdown is exactly the problem (and unbelievably long save time).

Don't worry about the Chines forum, I'm not Chinese, just live there.
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« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2023, 09:19:42 PM »

How does it go on MacOs? When I try to do the same thing the game only reads one of the files. And if its only the new one it ends up crashing.
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